Jane Hicks, San Francisco District Regulatory Branch Chief, and Ngoc Nguyen, Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) Project Manager discuss USACE regulatory and permiting processes for a Sponsor proposed design of the restoration of Alviso Slough as Norma Camacho, SCVWD Chief Operating Officer listens at the South Bay Yacht Club on Feb. 12, 2014, Alviso, Calif. Two Non-Federal Sponsors, the California Coastal Conservancy and SCVWD, teamed with USACE, San Francisco District Program Managers to discuss partnering on flood management projects that consider both Ecosystem Restoration and Flood Risk Management in the design in an area critical to the water district.